Belly time

Addison now weighs 14 pounds 3 ounces. Dr. Ruth said that she's smack dab in the middle of the growth chart now. Yay! She's still a short squirt like her mommy and every time we go somewhere I get "ah what is she 3 months?" Nope 5 months thank you. :) I've been laying her on her belly as much as possible and now she scoots all over the floor and rolls over from her belly to her back. She likes laying on a pillow and playing with her toys in the floor or even watching Mickey's Clubhouse laying on her belly. She's so much happier (not that she wasn't extremely happy before) but she doesn't care to have her belly touched or tickled or even fall asleep on her belly. She's been released from her surgeon (Dr. Fowler - which I will recommend to ANYONE who needs a pediatric surgeon.) I changed Addison's pad on her belly the other day at mom's house. Between Cassie, Daddy, and Joey, I asked Cassie to help me. LOL Joey and Daddy saw her belly once I took the bandage off and they both made a beeline out of the room. So me and Cassie changed her bandage and of course all the boys had to be right there watching and doing the "ooo that's so gross" and "nasty!" Addison just laughed. Here's some recent pictures.



Eli falls asleep like this almost every day after I pick him up after work. I think school and playing at Mamaw's is wearing him out. :)


Almost gone!

G-tube is gone!

We went to see Dr. Fowler yesterday. I was a little nervous because I was so afraid that she wasn't going to take the g-tube out and it's been starting to bother Addison, but she took it out! Finally! She had estimated that she could have it in between 3 months to a year and she had it in 3 months to the day almost. Addison did very good. Dr. Fowler took it out in the office. All she did was use a medicine syringe to deflate the bubble on the inside of her stomach and just pull it out. No needles or crying or anything. Addison didn't cry either. LOL. Of course me and Josh both had to take pictures of Addison's little hole but it looks so weird (and gross) before she put the gauze and tegaderm patch on it. Kinda looks like a gun shot wound. Yes it's yucky but I'm gonna post pictures anyways. :) We're just happy that she's doing good and everything is out and now she can start doing all the belly stuff like most babies her age are doing. Yay!!!

Waiting on Dr. Fowler

Addison's hole where her g-tube was. I know I know...gross. But I had to. :)

Addison celebrating after with a piece of bread. (This excites her.LOL)

Play time

So Saturday morning we get up and start to get ready for a swimming party that we were supposed to go to. Then the entire morning Addison kept getting choked and gagging from being congested so bad. (Besides I was already worried about a string that I thought was wrapped around her g-tube.) So I went ahead and took her to Children's. First I took Eli over to play with Blake and Ryan and Jacob went with me. Big mistake going to Children's because I failed to mention that this was at 12:30 when the Florida game started at 3. Our 10 minute drive to Children's took us almost an hour I think. They ended up not really doing anything for her because she can't take anything and she has a mild viral infection. (A cold.) So we went home and got Eli and went down to the lake in Karns and played in the water a few minutes (mainly because I locked my keys in the car and had to wait on mom to come and let us in.) We were actually just going "riding." LOL Anyways. We got back home and Jacob and Eli were playing with Addison. Jacob totes her around everywhere now and she played wrestling with them and even chewed on John Cena's head. :) Then Jacob hollars at me and tells me to come find Addison. His new game is to hide Addison and then get me to come find her. He did this with Josh once so I already had an idea of what he was doing. I've attached a picture. We made a trip to Babies R Us and found a Mickey's Clubhouse chair. Addison loves Mickey's Clubhouse so that's definately going to be a 1st Christmas present for her. Shhh! :)

By the way, Addison weighs 14 pounds now. She's basically discharged from the GI doctor since we no longer use the g-tube (which we're hoping to have taken out on Thursday) and she only goes every 3 months now just to check her weight and stuff. Enjoy the pictures!

This is Jacob and Eli showing her how to play with wrestlers...the right way. :)

Jacob and Addison are dressed up as ninjas. I think she just has one of Jacob's white t-shirts on.

Addison being attacked my Mickey Mouse. She loves watching Mickey's Clubhouse every morning while waiting on Daddy and I'm getting ready for work.

This is the Mickey Mouse chair that's going to be a MUST for Christmas. She laughed every time I put her in it.

Jacob putting Addison in the lake. (I think it's a lake. Lake, river, same difference.)

Can you find Addison?

Tennessee football time

Addison got to wear her 1st UT outfit. I figured I would post some pictures. Uncle Kenny would be so proud. :) The Gouge and Elrod families are big into UT football so of course Addison has to join the crowd and be all decked out. Not sure how Josh's family is on the Vols yet but with mine it's definately a sin to not join in. The boys had matching UT clothes this morning too (until Eli spilled toothpaste on his shirt) but I can never sit still long enough to get morning pictures of them before we're rushing out the door to catch the bus. :(

Here's the 1st UT outfit (notice I said 1st...she has several.)

Me and Traci agree she's starting to look like Sarah Kate. I think this one she looks like her.


This is just a picture of her new toy. She was playing with it then got really tired and ended up falling asleep.

Addison's 4 month check-up

Addison had her 4 month check up today with Dr. Machen. She weighed 13 pounds 8 ounces. (She weighed 13lbs 5oz Tuesday but she had a full diaper today.lol) She's 24 inches long and in the 49th percentile in her weight and length and 10th percentile in her head size. He said she has a pea head. :) Neurologically he said she's doing perfect and all around she's "fab-u-lous." He kept on and on commenting on how good she was doing. She kept blowing bubbles at him and grabbing for his stethoscope. She even let him put the tongue depressor in her mouth and didn't get mad. As soon as she finishes what Neocate (preemie formula) she has left then we will be going to Similac Alimentum. Then when she finishes what he gave us, we're to start regular Similac. He said she's ok on eating baby food and cereal and whatever else she wants basically. He's hoping they take the G-tube out soon too. He was surprised she still had it with how well she's been doing. Then of course he had to drop in there that she looks just like her daddy. (What am I chopped liver?!? LOL) He tried to sit her up to see how she's doing with that and he laughed because she didn't want to sit up, she wanted to stand up completely. He asked her if she thought she was older than 4 months or something. LOL That's my girl (or Daddy's girl, so he thinks.) Then the nurse came in with the shots. She had 2 shots and then had 2 medicines by mouth. I stuck the pacy in her mouth the minute the first shot went in and she didn't even make a noise. Then when the second shot went in she made a face with her eye brows and then she quit. She didn't get fussy or anything. I'm so proud! :)Needless to say I'm really excited that she's doing so much better. Now to get the g-tube out and start turning over again and crawling. Yay!

Waiting on Dr. Machen

Addison and her ring. She loves these. We had to show the doctor she can hold onto things and put them in her mouth. She definately knows how to do that.

After her shots, ready to go home.

GI appointment 8/24/2010

We took Addison to see Dr. Al-Tawil today. She weighed 13 pounds 5 ounces. Big difference from her 10 pounds 13 ounces that they said she weighed about a month ago. The reason we took her in today is because she's been starting to have choking episodes again and spit up a few times yesterday after she would eat. Here's what they said: her stomach is 3/4 the size that it should be since she's had the surgery done. When she over eats that's what will cause her to spit up. So basically he's saying that she's overeating. lol But last month he was telling us that she was doing good and to let her eat as much as she will. (I'm rolling my eyes right now.)Which I was starting to have a feeling that she's eating too much because she's waking up a lot at night but all the doctors were saying that's ok for now so I didn't think anything about it. So now we have to write down what all she's eating and take it back in a week and let them see if that's the case. She's getting little fat legs and starting to get a belly but everyone still says that she's so little but then they turn around and call her a "chunky monkey." Good grief. Will everyone make their minds up. :)

8/19/2010 Dr Fowler appointment

Dr. Fowler is Addison's surgeon (which I love.) She doesn't have much of a personality but she's really good at what she does and she's actually grown on me. We went in yesterday hoping to get her g-tube taken out but it didn't happen. Dr. Fowler came in and automatically said she had gained some weight just from looking at her and she seemed very happy. She even asked if she was always that happy. She was smiling and squealing when Dr. Fowler came in and even lets her mess around and look at her belly and still continues to laugh. Even tho Addison is eating completely by mouth (formula, cereal, and baby food) and burping on her own some now, she wants to keep the g-tube in one more month just to make sure. Dr Fowler said that she usually keeps them in a minimum of 3 months just to make sure so they don't need to go back in and put another g-tube in if she ended up needing it. So we have the tube in still for another month. Oh well. I was a little upset and almost started crying but I'm just glad that she's healthy and doing so much better. She loves eating baby food with cereal now. So far she's eaten apple sauce, bananas, peaches, and sweet potatoes. She loves all of them so far and gets so excited and thinks it's funny to spit her food out. Oh and they didn't weigh her yesterday so I don't have a current weight yet.

I bought her a Bumbo seat last week. Best thing since sliced bread!!! She loves the seat. She will sit in it and watch tv, play, and it's really easy to sit her in it to feed her. I've even brought her to work a few times and sat her in her seat on my desk and she just sits there and talks to everyone and watches the computer screen. It's awesome!

Here's Eli getting his hair cut before school started. The mohawk had to go.

Jacob and Addison. They're such hams. :)

Addison loves watching tv. Cartoons, movies, whatever. But she's starting to take after her cousins and getting into Mickeys Clubhouse.

Addison at 3 months old

Addison says "Thank you Ben for the Bumbo seat." Ben says "What are you doing in my chair woman." lol